I've decided to have a look around for open source projects that need a hand and lend a bit of time to one or two. One question though, is there a site(s) that lists current open source projects that are looking for developers and is there anywhere I could for example filter open source projects by language/technology/etc.
What I'm after is a way of getting an overview of many open source projects so I can make a decision whether they interest me or not.
Ideas where to find such information?
Finding projects to work on Find out whether it's an open source project by checking its license and if it accepts contributions and is active. Working on things you already use gives you an edge when contributing because you're already pretty familiar with how it works and have experience using it.
Yes, it is possible to make an open source project into a closed source project. The copyright holder can change the license of a project at any time, or cease to distribute source code of new releases. New releases can therefore be made closed source.
The three major ones:
SourceForge
CodePlex
Google Code
While you're probably not interested in participating in it yourself, the Google Summer of Code has a list of projects that are participating. A project participating generally means that it wants more contributors, it has mentors who are willing to help new contributors, and it has an ideas list with tasks that are good for someone just getting started on the code base (though they are generally designed to be a full time, summer long project, they do range in scope).
Looking through this list can definitely help you find things to do more easily than trawling through every open source project available on SourceForge, Google Code, or GitHub (though GitHub is nice because you can so easily fork, hack away with as many patches and throwaway branches as you need, and then request that your code be merged in once its done).
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